My conclusion is that there isn't much value in evaluating 1000s of perspectives, they're the same exact arguments you'd find in any blog or technical documentation comparing the two.
Readit Newscameronfraser commented on I reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives konfigthis.com/blog/graph... · Posted by u/dphuang2
cameronfraser commented on Royal Mail to Issue “Terry Pratchett’s Discworld” Stamps file770.com/royal-mail-to... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
puts usps to shame with their themes like floral geometry and strawberries and schoolbuses
cameronfraser commented on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/andrewl
I would guess it's less than 5% of users in the US.
There are weed addicts. My college dorm had about half a dozen students jonesing when all the dealers (5-6 in our area) went home for the winter holidays. Did anyone lose their job, get in a wreck, end up in the hospital, or die from it? I seriously doubt it.
I'd say alcoholism and binge drinking are far bigger threats. You know, like my roommate who nearly died from alcohol poisoning on his 21st birthday from downing half a dozen shots of everclear and more.
The magnitude of harm, impairment, and life dysfunction for substance abuse varies by said substance. Weed addiction isn't nothing but it's not tobacco, drinking, or meth.
I'd said the biggest harm of weed is people who smoke it unfiltered and inhale microfines and ultrafines more so than filtered tobacco cigarettes. Dabbing could be potentially better, but so much of the market is grey and black that there's not enough research or uniform safety standards on producing healthy inhalation products.
this isn't a measuring contest to see which drug is worse, this is just acknowledging that people can have severe addiction issues with cannabis. Just because you don't die from withdrawals doesn't mean it can't lead to serious quality of life issues and poor mental health.
cameronfraser commented on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/andrewl
In my experiences, cannabis is about as addictive as coffee/caffeine.
By that, I mean it's unpleasant to quit after continuous usage due to various withdrawal side-effects but only for a relatively short period of time (3 or 4 days max).
dabbing all day and vaping oil is in no way comparable to caffeine, cannabis is way more addictive, side effects last longer than 3-4 days as well. People are extremely irritable having lost their main crutch for a month or longer. The fog doesn't lift for about a month. This article is talking about people actually addicted, not like they smoke once a day in the evenings or something.
I do think AI is here to stay, but that initial round of AI is going to destroy the world burned fast and hot.
I can't even get ChatGPT (+ web plugin), when given a list of restaurants in NYC, to tell me which ones are still open vs have closed, and what their hours of operation / locations are.
This is a pretty low bar request IMO. Showed me we still have a ways to go before AI is where we thought it was 3-4 months ago.
Most of the plugins are garbage, I just want chatgpt to have up to date knowledge and working natively with more media types. I don't think I've used a single plugin I thought had good results but I love gpt4 for work
cameronfraser commented on Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business fastcompany.com/90920031/... · Posted by u/DocFeind
Can you repeat your initial message? I am an adult and can decide whether it offends me without someone flagging it for me.
On HN the zeitgeist decides what we see and don't see
cameronfraser commented on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself sfba.social/@sysop408/110... · Posted by u/ZacnyLos
Google did this a long time ago. It’s more nuanced than you think. Two requests would be issued and the first acknowledged one cause the second to be cancelled. There was a public paper on this from Dean iirc and the method is a decade old.
This was very illuminating thanks, learned something new
cameronfraser commented on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself sfba.social/@sysop408/110... · Posted by u/ZacnyLos
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.
I worked in the games industry for a while, and came to understand how they could spend so much money and so much time, and yet release a game where even basic functionality was broken. It's exactly this sort of extreme schedule pressure that, ironically, makes a huge morass where changing one thing breaks 10 other things, so progress grinds to a halt.
> So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at least one of them was fast.
lol nobody would do this to solve this problem because it doesn't even remotely solve it or give the appearance of solving it, if anything it's guaranteed to make things go slower
cameronfraser commented on Ask HN: How to switch software engineering domains · Posted by u/SomeDaysBe
With things like computer graphics you're competing with a very different pool of applicants than you likely were before. People with PhD's and Masters in related fields. I have found success with positioning myself as someone who works on the edges of multiple domains. So if you were a web developer before it would be at an intersection of web development and computer graphics which could be web gl or operationalizing graphics applications for web or cloud integration. This won't work very well at larger companies that have a lot of clear boundaries between positions, but it will work at startups where boundaries are less clearly defined and people wear multiple hats. In summary, try startups and position yourself at the intersection of multiple domains to get your foot in the door.
IMO this is an insurmountable moat for any service that would try to challenge it.